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Within the European Seventh Framework (FP7) Programme, there are 34 projects dedicated to nanomaterial toxicology worth over €100 million1. This investment was necessary to establish public confidence, but nanotoxicology studies have not yet provided any clear and unequivocal answers on the toxicity of nanomaterials, as was highlighted in your recent Editorial2.

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  1. European Commission European Nanosafety Cluster Compendium (2012); http://go.nature.com/xLp2QR

  2. Nature Nanotech. 7, 545 (2012).

  3. International Organization for Standardization ISO/TR 13014:2012: Nanotechnologies — Guidance on Physico-chemical Characterization of Engineered Nanoscale Materials for Toxicologic Assessment (2012); http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm

  4. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development List of Manufactured Nanomaterials and List of Endpoints for Phase One of the Testing Programme (2008); http://go.nature.com/aJBhhe

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The authors gratefully acknowledge Steffi Friedrich from the Nanotechnology Industries Association, Richard Brown and John Jarman for their contributions to the work.

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